It’s so important to know where you are.
JIM VALVANOI’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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